[Tutor] Web browser

[Liam Clarke]

Can Beautiful Soup execute scripts? I was trying to scrape using urllib2, 
and the Javascripts messed my navigation up something chronic.


On 6/13/05, Liam Clarke <cyresse at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> For what Ismael wants, you'd need to use PyXPCOM.
> 
> IMAO, on a Win32 box, if you're not browsing dubious sites, it's not 
> really worth the effort of trying to grasp XPCOM, when ActiveX/COM & IE are 
> sitting there ready to use with a simpler interface.
> 
> My $0.02.
> 
> 
> On 6/12/05, Terry Carroll <carroll at tjc.com> wrote:
> > 
> > On Sat, 11 Jun 2005, Ismael Garrido wrote:
> > 
> > > I've been looking around for a web browser either written in python, 
> > or
> > > with python bindings.
> > 
> > MozPython? http://www.thomas-schilz.de/MozPython/README.html
> > 
> > > What I need to do is load a web-page, enter a password-protected site
> > > and follow certain links, it needs to have frames and follow the 
> > refresh
> > > meta. I'm running winxp, python 2.4
> > 
> > Why not write a scraper, using something like Beautiful Soup?
> > 
> > 
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